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IE Immigrant Experiences RR Religion and Religious Identity
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A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban ...
By Robert Munsch, Illustrated By Dave Whamond
RI Racialized Identities
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Jamaal may be the oldest kid in his family, but he somehow got stuck with the smallest room. His parents agree that it isn’t fair, but that is just how it is. But Jamaal isn’t satisfied by the answer – if his parents aren’t going to fix the house, he will use creativit...
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This adorable story about animal friends is now in a chunky board book format!In the Jingle Jangle Jungle on a cold and rainy day,four litte friends found a perfect place to play.None of them had noticed that someone else was there.Sle...
RP Read with Pride
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Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance.But Nick is struggling with feelings of h...
By Tracey West, Illustrated By Graham Howells
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Pick a book. Grow a reader. This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these b...

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SJ Social Justice IS Indigenous Stories
Shortlisted, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, Sundogs 2025
In this acclaimed book, readers meet thirteen-year-old twins Leon and Eloise who live in Matimekush, an Innu community in Northern Quebec.While Leon spends all his free time playing hockey, and wondering how he can prove he has the talent to make it big in a place w...
By Sylv Chiang, Illustrated By Mathias Ball
RP Read with Pride
Winner, CBC Kids Reads 2024
Evelyn is worried about Tessa. Tessa doesn’t want to play the same games they used to play together, but Evelyn is determined to find new ways to connect with her older sibling. And she is also learning to see Tessa as non-binary and using new pronouns for them. Evelyn learn...
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By Elizabeth MacLeod, Illustrated By Mike Deas
PD Physical Disability
Dr. Frederick Banting’s remarkable discovery of insulin has changed and saved the lives of millions around the world . . . but that’s only part of his story! When Frederick Banting was young, his friend Jennie became sick. She had diabetes and soon pa...
By Kate Marchant, Illustrated By CJ Joaquin
Amidst the chaos of her parents’ bitter divorce, Alaskan teenager Waverly Lyons trades in her textbooks and parka for a summer of suntans and short-shorts with her aunt in Florida. A fish out of water even back in the snow, Waverly is determined to be everything she isn’t ...
Created By Osamu Tezuka, By Samuel Sattin, Illustrated By Gurihiru
Lost in space and time, Unico awakens in an abandoned factory town. Saved by the resourceful mouse, Garapachi, Unico befriends Chiko, a human girl. But he soon learns that a sinister force is at work in the town's factory, bent on killing all living things. Meanwhile, Venus un...
When seventeen-year-old Nina Riley gets saved by a super cute Knight-in-Faded-Khakis just as she lands in an embarrassingly sticky situation during the most disastrous hike known to man, she wasn’t exactly looking for a meet cute. She really just needed some peace and quiet fro...
The third installment of CAT ON THE RUN! Find out what happens to Princess Beautiful in the third book of the trilogy...